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The A's had not won four straight since ending last season with a victory at Seattle followed by a three-game sweep of the Los Angeles Angels. A's win 4th in row for 1st time this year, beat ...
The Oakland Athletics rode three home runs and stellar relief pitching to a 10th consecutive victory Monday afternoon, 8-5 over the visiting Los Angeles Angels. Jurickson Profar rallied the A's ...
Third baseman Luis Arraez threw wildly to first on a potential game-ending ground out with two outs in the 10th inning Wednesday afternoon, allowing the tying and winning runs to score as the ...
The A's also had edges on the Giants in terms of overall postseason appearances (21–13), division titles (17–10) and World Series titles (4–3) since both teams moved to the Bay Area, even though the Giants franchise moved there a decade earlier than the A's did. On March 24, 2018, the Oakland A's announced that for the Sunday, March 25 ...
The Swingin' A's is a nickname for the Oakland Athletics (A's) Major League Baseball team, primarily used in reference to the A's team of the 1970s that dominated the American League from 1971 to 1975, won three consecutive World Series championships in 1972, 1973 and 1974, and is widely recognized as being among the best in baseball history. [1]
April 29 - The A's return home for a three-game interleague series against the Pittsburgh Pirates. Tyler Nevin homered for the second straight game, as Oakland defeated the Pirates 5-1. With the win, the A's have won four of their past five games. [43] April 30 - JJ Bleday hit two home runs, powering the Athletics to a 5-2 victory over the Pirates.
“It’s tubular right now,” A's pitcher Cole Irvin said. The Oakland Athletics earned their 12th consecutive victory -- the club's longest winning streak in almost two decades — defeating ...
In 1938, a young Texan named Byrum Saam became the first radio voice of the A's. Saam, later joined by Claude Haring, broadcast all the Athletics’ home games on station WIBG. Because Saam and Haring also broadcast Phillies’ home games as well, A's road games were only broadcast when there was no conflict with a Phillies home game. Even so ...